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Merchandising major Sydney Geis is one of IU's 2025 "Post-Modern" Scholars
A merchandising major with minors in fashion design and marketing, senior Sydney Geis has recently added another bona fide to her impressive resume: Virgil Abloh Post-Modern Scholar. Sharing her cultural identity in her work “happens naturally,” said Geis, who also described why she chose merchandising and the opportunities she's found at IU.
IU honors Eskenazi's Jon Racek with Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award
Teaching Professor Jon Racek has received IU's Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award. Recognized for creating learning opportunities beyond the classroom that engage students in their local community, the comp design director is one of seven faculty members being honored with the 2025 University Teaching and Service Awards.
Meet the IU alumna who designed Lil Baby's house
Long before she was designing interiors for celebrities, Annysa LaMantia was an Eskenazi School student who also reported for the Indiana Daily Student (IDS). This week, the IDS reports on the star alum, whose commission for the musician Lil Baby was featured in Architectural Digest, "like getting a Grammy for interior design," she says.
Town of Elnora envisions new possibilities with IU design program
Through the Sustaining Hoosiers Communities (SHC) initiative, Eskenazi comp design students have developed 30 different architectural designs for Elnora, Indiana, a Daviess County town of 600 residents. SHC seeks to enhance the vitality of rural places and provide meaningful learning experiences with real-world impact.
Nerding out on 3D type and creativity with Taekyeom Lee
Ever wondered what happens when you combine ceramics with typography and throw in a DIY 3D printer for good measure? Associate Professor of Graphic Design Taekyeom Lee spoke about taking typography off the page and into the third dimension with Monotype's Creative Characters podcast.
Graphic design MFA Ellie Prisbrey is "Inspired by Inquiry"
Vintage films explaining capitalism to middle and high schoolers buried in IU Libraries' Moving Image Archive inspired graphic design M.F.A. Ellie Prisbrey to create an artwork currently on view with others inspired by IU's collections. Learn about Prisbrey's process and join her and her M.F.A. cohort for an opening reception Jan. 30.
Lenscratch showcases IU photographer Nakagawa's trilogy on Japanese American incarceration
Eskenazi School photography professor Osamu James Nakagawa covered nearly 25,000 miles to document the sites of the camps where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War 2. He spoke with Lenscratch about American Truths, the trilogy of pictures he made from the experience.
Designer of Lil Baby's Atlanta home is Eskenazi's own
Interior design alum Annysa LaMantia (B.S. '09) has clients in the NBA and on the Billboard charts. "What's so beautiful" about working at that level, says the Bloomington native, "is that now I am working with every kind of creative ... giving others a platform, so that [they] can do what they love to do."
Student spotlight: Luke Carlson, Studio Art M.F.A. (Painting)
M.F.A. student Luke Carlson likes to make paintings that are playful but “also a little dark thematically,” he explains. Carlson, who will exhibit his thesis work in the spring, reflected on the opportunities IU has presented for teaching, making connections, and exhibiting on the local and regional art scene.
"Our Indiana" podcast spotlights creative placemaking
On this episode of the Our Indiana podcast from the IU Center for Rural Engagement Eskenazi Comp Design Director and Teaching Professor Jon Racek talks about the way he and his students are using creative placemaking in rural Martin County to help the community realize its goals.
